Plant Manager

at  Syngenta Seeds

Company Description
Syngenta Seeds is one of the world’s largest developers and producers of seed for farmers, commercial growers, retailers and small seed companies. Syngenta seeds improve the quality and yields of crops. High-quality seeds ensure better and more productive crops, which is why farmers invest in them. Advanced seeds help mitigate risks such as disease and drought and allow farmers to grow food using less land, less water and fewer inputs. Syngenta Seeds brings farmers more vigorous, stronger, resistant plants, including innovative hybrid varieties and biotech crops that can thrive even in challenging growing conditions. Syngenta Seeds is headquartered in the United States.
Job Description

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Manage the entire Seeds processing, Warehousing and related Engineering & Maintenance activities and its continuity.
• Responsible for the Quality of the products made by the Plant.
• Takes part in investigation of root causes of Customer Complaints and identified Non-Conformities; performs actions for improvements.
• Accountable to comply with all Syngenta Policies, Standards, Codes of Practices and Health, Safety, Environmental (HSE) Guidelines.
• Act as a role model of the continuous improvement of the function; apply right the Operational Excellence (OpEx) tools (Measure & manage performance by KPIs).
• Ensure best utilization of all resources to fit business requirements, including materials, machinery, energy & human resources.
• Owns the workforce planning, hiring process of permanent & seasonal employees; do the required administrations in the relevant systems. Works with external service providers.
• Responsible for accurate administration of working hours, salaries, bonuses in the related systems.
• Responsible for performance evaluation, development & recognition of the workforce.
• Responsible for purchasing input materials and services linked to Plant Operations. Being owner of contract preparation linked to this activities.
• Ensure by contractual agreement the uninterrupted removal of by-products in line with Authority and any other requirements.
• Takes part of Plant annual budget development and regularly follows-up actual financial performance versus budget.
• Plans and executes the plant related Sustenance & Capex activities.
  Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• University/college degree in Agronomy
• At least 5 years experience in production environment preferably in agribusiness
• At least 5 years experience in Team leadership
• Relevant Seed processing experience
• Being familiar with basics of Financials
• Fluent English and Hungarian
• Fluent MS Office user
• Driving license “B” category
• Excellent work organization skills
• Ability to work in a team
• High level verbal and written communication skills
  Additional Information

Please refer the Job description for details